Robert Frank Beaufort, South Carolina
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Robert Frank
1914 - 2019
Beaufort, South Carolina
gelatin silver print, signed, dated ''78' and inscribed 'For Marty–Sing your Song in the Future' in ink in the margin
image: 8¾ by 12⅞ in. (22.2 by 32.7 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed no later than 1978.
Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.
This print, on Agfa paper, is in generally excellent condition. Visible under raking light are two pinpoint-sized impressions that do not appear to break the emulsion and a tiny brown deposit of indeterminate nature near the left edge of the image. The upper margin is faintly soiled. There is a very short crease at the right edge that does not appear to break the emulsion. There is minor wear to the margin corners.
On the reverse, there are a few fingerprints. There is an abrasion to the upper paper-ply at the upper edge. 'CM#1066' and 'Z014.937'[crossed out] are written in pencil in an unidentified hand.
Catalogue Note:
“But where [Walker] Evans saw objects, the vernacular, and the past, Frank saw people, the present, and the very pressing issue of racism. A place of deprivation and triumph, Beaufort, for Frank, was epitomized...by an African American woman with a soaring smile seated in a field with a cross-like telephone pole looming on the horizon behind her.” (Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans", p. 122)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, began collecting the work of Robert Frank in the early 1980s, organizing the seminal exhibition Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia in 1986 and co-producing the first documentary about the artist that same year. Today, the Museum owns more than 400 photographs by Frank, including the original maquette for his seminal photobook The Americans, from which the present photograph is a key image.
Provenance:
The photographer to Michael and Michele Marvins
Gift of the above to the present owner
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Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Robert Frank
1914 - 2019
Beaufort, South Carolina
gelatin silver print, signed, dated ''78' and inscribed 'For Marty–Sing your Song in the Future' in ink in the margin
image: 8¾ by 12⅞ in. (22.2 by 32.7 cm.)
Executed in 1955, printed no later than 1978.
Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.
This print, on Agfa paper, is in generally excellent condition. Visible under raking light are two pinpoint-sized impressions that do not appear to break the emulsion and a tiny brown deposit of indeterminate nature near the left edge of the image. The upper margin is faintly soiled. There is a very short crease at the right edge that does not appear to break the emulsion. There is minor wear to the margin corners.
On the reverse, there are a few fingerprints. There is an abrasion to the upper paper-ply at the upper edge. 'CM#1066' and 'Z014.937'[crossed out] are written in pencil in an unidentified hand.
Catalogue Note:
“But where [Walker] Evans saw objects, the vernacular, and the past, Frank saw people, the present, and the very pressing issue of racism. A place of deprivation and triumph, Beaufort, for Frank, was epitomized...by an African American woman with a soaring smile seated in a field with a cross-like telephone pole looming on the horizon behind her.” (Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans", p. 122)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, began collecting the work of Robert Frank in the early 1980s, organizing the seminal exhibition Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia in 1986 and co-producing the first documentary about the artist that same year. Today, the Museum owns more than 400 photographs by Frank, including the original maquette for his seminal photobook The Americans, from which the present photograph is a key image.
Provenance:
The photographer to Michael and Michele Marvins
Gift of the above to the present owner
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